All right! Time to sit down for the night and watch some Conan.
Oh. Did I say Conan? Because I meant “the first half of Conan.” Thank you, St. Louis Cardinals! Thank you, and thank channel 5 news.
Sports: you have a channel. You have like ten channels. Go be on your channel and leave me the hell alone. Be free. Run along and play with your kind. As far as my household is able to tell on football Sundays, “60 Minutes” is just a name. It’s not fair to me. It’s not fair to Andy Rooney. Take your little balls; take your little bats; f*** off; die. Thank you for your time.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:39 am
I have a similar issue up here in Twins’ land. In the end, though, I always know I’ll have the last laugh– watching all those Twins and Vikings fans get there hopes up for what will be, inevitably, another “almost” season. I would expect the Cardinals to have a similar fate, especially this year. If not, you can always count on their historically-demonstrated ability to throw a series lead away.
October 4th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Settling down for some Conan only to be ambushed by the unholy rictus of Jay Leno is perhaps the unkindest cut of all. If I had to choose between Jay Leno and baseball, I would take the baseball. And throw it at Jay Leno.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Total agreement with you, Jim. As if 5 ESPNs and season baseball stations on the satellite aren’t enough. We live in a city that is obsessed with sports. Never mind it’s impoverished northern neighborhoods riddled with crime, the city’s crumbling infrastructure, it’s steady exodus of all able-bodied, middle-class taxpayers to greener pastures in the county and outlying ‘burbs. I literally have to remove KHITS 96.3 from my radio during the sunny months, because these two dorks can do nothing but talk about baseball. Understandably, since one of them is one of the commentators for the Cardinals, it begets a certain amount of loyalty, but good lord. THERE HAS TO BE MORE THAN LIFE THAN WHAT PUJOLS HAD FOR BREAKFAST.
Whoever thought that hitting a ball with a wooden stick and running around in a circle would engender such a national obsession is beyond me. I say that in the full knowledge that Battlestar Galactica never sold any beer nor did it support the local businesses of the downtown area. The game survives because people sacrifice college educations, book money and charitable donations for season tickets.
All I can recommend is get a TiVo with lots of space and adjust your schedules to add +2.5 hours just to make sure you catch your shows. If only TiVo had a built-in episode editor so you could clip out the baseball tripe at the leading end of the show, life would be gravy.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Jim, I share your frustrations and agree with you completely, until the moment the Cardianls get to the playoffs. At which point I tend to believe that all other television should be banned. But only when the actual game is on. The constant talking about the game drives me crazy too.